I'll post the link to my sandbox page and then explain what kind of criticism I'm looking for specifically. All advice and criticism is welcome of course, however I have few areas that I know could be immediately problematic.

First, It would be very nice to have someone with a college education in physics to review my SCP for any glaring defects. Most importantly I'm not sure whether an animal is capable of maintaining it's internal body temperature given the effects of my SCP.

Second, I've decided that the foundation site placed in charge of containing my SCP isn't able to financially afford full containment of my SCP. I'm not sure whether or not this interferes too drastically with established understanding of foundation assets, so some advice in that regard would be much appreciated.

Third, this is the first full SCP I've written so I'm certain there will be some problems with tone that I would love some criticism on. It's also possible that I may have used redaction inappropriately, specifically with regards to names. If I have please let me know.

Any criticism helps and I'd like to thank everyone who takes the time to read through it in advance.

The SCP is supposed to be located in the Gobi Desert and yurts are a common form of housing in the region. I debated including an explanation of this in the Special Containment Procedures but I thought that in the end it distracted. If you feel I should include a line about that let me know.

Great, thanks, I'll rework that.

I don't really think of a meter as being too specific for using the word approximately, however I'm totally willing to change it if you feel it would work better as simply "182 meters". Would something more along the lines of "just under 182 meters" be clinical enough for inclusion?

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, so I'll try to explain the SCP's effects better here and try to think if I can get it to come across better in the article itself. Once a photon of light interacts with an instance of SCP-XXXX-1 it essentially ceases to exist. So unless an organism relies upon absorbing electromagnetic radiation to exist, like a fern or algae, it shouldn't kill an organism, at least as far as my understanding of physics goes. There may be a problem with heating, but I think most organisms are heated primarily by conduction with their environment. Also, it should in some rare cases actually prevent injury. For instance, it would prevent simple things such as sunburn as well as damage from severe radiation such as gamma or x-rays.

Totally reasonable response. I was a bit worried that it might not have a strong hook so I included the addendum that at least explains why it's worth keeping tabs on it. I may let it rest for a bit of time while I work on other things to see if I can't punch it up a bit.

Again, thanks for the criticism. I'll edit it either tomorrow or thursday to include your suggestions.

"The primary anomalous effects" is perfectly reasonable tone. I can prove it:

SCP-1077: "However, approximately 12-18 days after initial infection, the primary anomalous effects of SCP-1077 infection become apparent."

Skippy (tale): "The object's primary anomalous effect manifests when its trigger is pulled"

SCP-1859: "Because of the primary anomalous effect of SCP-1859, Monitoring Station ██ must be equipped with three separate chronometers."

SCP-1153: "When an instance of SCP-1153-2 is connected by a cable to an instance of SCP-1153, the [DATA EXPUNGED] program is launched, and a command is executed, the primary anomalous effects of SCP-1153 can be observed."

A number of others use "primary effect" to mean the same thing: the anomalous quality which is most obvious, relevant to containment, or likely to occur.

There are a lot of tone problems in the draft, but that's not one of them.

Thanks for the feedback and clarifying those tone issues. Given the general reaction to this SCP so far I'll probably try to work on some other things and come back to this idea if I can think of some way to make it more interesting. I think I've got an idea or two that will be a bit more compelling with any luck.

I'm by no means an expert, but I think photons are sort of important for the electromagnetic force, at least in particle physics. If I'm not mistaken, this effect would therefore mean that atoms and molecules would sort of fall apart, which would probably make this rather dangerous. This is based on just a college-level particle physics course, though, so you might want to get someone smarter than me to check this (or maybe just ignore it).

Apart from that, the basis of light being neutralised is a bit clichéd (see SCP-1303-2, SCP-1170 and SCP-626 for example, and more have been proposed and shot down), but I think you've pulled it off rather well despite that. The tone looks pretty good in my opinion, and I like the solar panels and the location.

One final note:

Due to it's effects, SCP-XXXX-1 has been found to effectively kill all photosynthetic organisms

the effective range of it's anomalous effects has expanded

The word "it's" technically only means "it is" or "it has"; "its" (without apostrophe) is the word for "belonging to it". It's a common mistake, but lots of people downvote instantly when an article gets it wrong.

Yeah, I'm not particularly well versed in high level physics either and I'm essentially treating photons solely as particles here which is definitely going to be flawed. I'll read up on virtual photons and force carriers to see if this SCP can still plausibly function as I've described. Thanks for bringing that up.

If I had known about 1303-2 and 626 before I had started writing this I probably would have passed on the concept. I'll be a bit more thorough in vetting my ideas next time. Thanks for the compliment though, I'm glad you find parts of it compelling.

Thanks for catching that. I have a bad habit of overextending words like "your" to "you're" without thinking about it. I'll make sure to do a search for those common mistakes next time before I put out a new draft.

Thank you again for the feedback and taking the time to leave such a thoughtful response.

Okay, I've taken the time to alter the SCP to try to make it more clear how the SCP functions and to make minor edits to tone and grammar/punctuation.

I'm still interested in receiving advice from those with a good understanding of quantum dynamics to see if the SCP can function as described. Also, I'm a bit worried that the changes I've made make the piece too technical. Any criticism is much appreciated.